But wouldn’t it be more revealing, and more useful, to measure housing affordability as measured against the annual income of those who are making minimum wage? Wouldn’t that help to highlight the growing disparity between rich and poor, homelessness, the increasing discontent, community crime rates, etc?

Here is my ranking of the same 17 cities, using median house prices divided by an annual income of $18,000:

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